>When adults have a "debate" usually the goal is to take an absurd position Not so. Most debates are about mundane things like, Should we invest our limited RD

>When adults have a "debate" usually the goal is to take an absurd position Not so. Most debates are about mundane things like, Should we invest our limited RD budget on X or Y?, or should we send our kids to public or private school? Or is GoT or LotR a better series. That table you linked is total nonsense trying to redefine fussy terms like debate, dialouge, discussion and artificially place them on a linear scale. T Debate is a from of dialouge which is in turn a form of discussion.